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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html-in-xml/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Xerces 2 | Schedule</TITLE> <LINK href="css/site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <STYLE type="text/css"> .note { font-size: smaller } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>Xerces 2 Schedule</H1> <H2>Current Milestones</H2> <A name="M2"></A> <H3>Parser with DTD scanning without validation (M2) </H3> <TABLE border="0"> <TR> <TH>Date:</TH> <TD>Friday, 6 October 2000</TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Depends:</TH> <TD><A href="#M1">M1</A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>More documentation Parser initialization and the validation system needs to be documented. Driver: <A href="mailto:jeffreyr@us.ibm.com">Jeff Rodriguez</A> Contributors: <A href="mailto:lehors@us.ibm.com">Arnaud Le Hors</A> - Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD> Re-organize package structure to separate core interfaces and classes from implementation Driver: <A href="mailto:andyc@apache.org">Andy Clark</A> Contributors: <A href="mailto:lehors@us.ibm.com">Arnaud Le Hors</A> - Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Improve entity manager and scanner Must support external entities, including the DTD entity and pre-defined general entities (e.g. &amp;). Driver: <A href="mailto:andyc@apache.org">Andy Clark</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Improve document scanner Handle trailing miscellaneous section; premature end of file; use the error reporter; etc. Driver: <A href="mailto:ericye@apache.org">Eric Ye</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Parsing of DOCTYPE line and DTD markup declarations Driver: <A href="mailto:lehors@us.ibm.com">Arnaud Le Hors</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Storing basic DTD grammar information Driver: <A href="mailto:jeffreyr@us.ibm.com">Jeff Rodriguez</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <A name="M3"></A> <H3>Parser with DTD scanning + datatypes and content model validation (M3) </H3> <TABLE border="0"> <TR> <TH>Depends:</TH> <TD><A href="#M2">M2</A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Ever more documentation Document parser configurations and how new components and configurations would be written and connected. Driver: <A href="mailto:andyc@apache.org">Andy Clark</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Datatype validators Only those datatype validators needed for DTD grammars need to be added. All DTD datatypes should work: CDATA, ENTITY, ENTITIES, ID, IDREF, IDREFS, NMTOKEN, NMTOKENS, and NOTATION. Driver: <A href="mailto:jeffreyr@us.ibm.com">Jeff Rodriguez</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Content model validators This affects the following classes: SimpleContentModel, MixedContentModel, DFAContentModel. Driver: <A href="mailto:ericye@apache.org">Eric Ye</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <A name="M4"></A> <H3>Parser with DTD scanning and Schema parsing + validation (M4) </H3> <TABLE border="0"> <TR> <TH>Depends:</TH> <TD><A href="#M3">M3</A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>DOM implementation Write the DOMParser to populate the DOM tree. Decide what should be done with the "deferred" DOM implementation. Driver: <A href="mailto:lehors@us.ibm.com">Arnaud Le Hors</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Schema structures updated to current spec (22 Sep 2000) Can this be done without using the DOM? Driver: <A href="mailto:ericye@apache.org">Eric Ye</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Schema datatypes updated to current spec (22 Sep 2000) Driver: <A href="mailto:jeffreyr@us.ibm.com">Jeff Rodriguez</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <H2>Future Milestones</H2> <A name="M666"></A> <H3>Full Schema support (M666) </H3> <TABLE border="0"></TABLE> <A name="M9999"></A> <H3>Party! (M9999) </H3> <TABLE border="0"></TABLE> <H2>Completed Milestones</H2> <A name="M1"></A> <H3>Parser without DTD support (M1) </H3> <TABLE border="0"> <TR> <TH>Date:</TH> <TD>Friday, 29 Sep 2000</TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Document design based on Xerces community feedback Driver: <A href="mailto:andyc@apache.org">Andy Clark</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Support classes This affects the following classes: XMLString, XMLStringBuffer, XMLChar, EncodingMap, SymbolTable, QName. Driver: <A href="mailto:ericye@apache.org">Eric Ye</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Basic entity managment This affects the following classes: XMLEntityManager, XMLEntityScanner. Driver: <A href="mailto:jeffreyr@us.ibm.com">Jeff Rodriguez</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Basic error handling This affects the following interfaces & classes: XMLErrorReporter, some MessageFormatter. Driver: <A href="mailto:ericye@apache.org">Eric Ye</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Parsing of elements and attributes using internal interface This affects the following classes: XMLAttributes, XMLDocumentScanner. Driver: <A href="mailto:andyc@apache.org">Andy Clark</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TH>Task:</TH> <TD>Implement a SAX2 parser from internal callbacks This affects the following classes: XMLParser, XMLDocumentParser, SAXParser. Driver: <A href="mailto:lehors@us.ibm.com">Arnaud Le Hors</A> Contributors: Contributors wanted! Contact task driver to contribute. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <HR> Last modified: $Date$ </BODY> </HTML>

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